The old farmer, Mouz Ehrams, was looking for cows who had lost their way somewhere when he found a strange creature in the bush. It was brilliant, green, with purple spots and stinked the whole neighborhood. And it moaned softly – “exactly the wind was bored by the wind under the wide eaves of the … Read more
Romain Rolland The Enchanted Soul According to the writer’s plan, the novel is “something more than a literary work: it is a living being, a story about the spiritual world of one woman”, covering forty years of her life – from a carefree youth to a courageous death. From the first pages of the novel … Read more
LN Andreev The Life of Man Throughout the action on the scene are Someone in the gray and second nameless character, silently standing in the far corner. In the prologue Someone in gray addresses the public with an explanation of what will be presented to her. This is the life of Man, all from birth … Read more
“The smoking-room is alive…” – Cola cries to friends who came to see if he died from the plague. But no, Cola Bryunnon, “an old sparrow of Burgundian blood, full of spirit and belly, no longer the first youth, half-century knocked, but strong,” is not going to leave his beloved land and still revels in … Read more
From this book, the author’s success in Russia began. The protagonist – matured hippies in the small advertising business. His wife left him. Suddenly, he is summoned to a powerful advertising concern and is asked to explain where he got the photograph of one strange sheep. It turns out that this sheep – a kind … Read more
Long ago a man and his wife lived. They had two children: the eldest daughter Masha and the younger son Vanya. Once the parents went to the city and punished Masha to look after her brother and not leave the yard. And for the good conduct promised to the guests. But as soon as her … Read more
Working in Canada on an old DS-3 aircraft gave Ben a “good temper”, thanks to which he flew in the “fairchild” over the Egyptian deserts in recent years, searching for oil for an oil exporting company. To land geologists, Ben could land the plane anywhere: “on sand, on a bush, on a stony bottom of … Read more
Frank Norris Sprut “Sprut” is a work about life and struggle for farmers’ rights of the San Joaquin Valley, created on the basis of a real event – an armed clash between farmers and authorities in the county of Musselslaf in 1880. Poet Presley came from San Francisco to this fertile region, where immense fields … Read more
MA Sholokhov Shibalkovo seed The Red Army man persuades the head of the orphanage to take his child from him. Although there are no places, he, too, can not drag him behind the detachment. Forty versts he walked to the city, knocked down his legs, he had no choice, as soon as he gave the … Read more
The heroine of the book, a girl named Alice, begins her journey to the Land of Wonders unexpectedly for herself: Alice, razmylshaya from heat and idleness, suddenly noticed a rabbit, which in itself is not surprising; but this rabbit turned out to be not only a speaker, but also a holder of a pocket watch, … Read more